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UPion Bureau of information. --Condueted by the - South Carolina Farmers' 'Eduoa tion4l and Co-Operation Union. 'SWCommunications. intended for this department should be addressed to J. C' Stribling, Pendleton, S. C. Our Cotton On Ha6d. Our efforts in these columns has been chiefly directed towards check ing, if possible, the increase of acre age by silly farmers in cotton; we hiiNve iio~houigh'ftinecessary to give any advice here to the farmers now holding their cotton. These are men of business, and are usually mie with sufficient grit, pduck and finaicial backinleg 1) (1 rY their points and kinow what thIy are aIout. The cot tol holders that now have Ihis mat ter in) hauld are aboit. as good finlanl cienj, aild have alibout. as much col lateral and backing behind them as ihe bleair eleient have. Cotton holders know now that about all the seary holders have been shaken out, and that the cotton bear is now up against the real solid stuff. Spot holders are well aware of the fact that the spin ner has got to have about all the cot ton before the next crop comes in, and it mnatters not whether the next crop will be a siall or a large crop. The thing is this, the mills must run or the walking mi(ibs that are parading tile stlreets of1' the I'oreint'll in ufn11tact uring cities callini- 1or work or bread will wage riot. Stoppinig tihe mills uide. sich condition wmild be eqluivatlent to striking a mateh in a powderl holise. 11ld your hlolt. boys, and make thei m come over! The Signs of the Times. It1 we are not badlyN deceived in the si-n o the' d'ttimes., farmers that do noot leedi the wvarnim 0, tihe Farim ersl'siin anid planti more food cr(SPS 114w. tle(y will be running around next till wantiinw eveiybody's advice about howm 14) hny .$241 a tion peaviii hay and $1.01 a hihel sh(o with 1i cents cot It'll. Our bitg stpply men an,1 mile mien, too, had betei butt in this thing at onWt along with thile Farers' Union in their. efforts to induce farmers to plant iiore food crops and less cot ton, or the game next winter will be nip and tuck between these men and the buzzards as to who will get the most revenue out of this mule mort gage business. A good deal is being said recently about live stock associations in each Of the voilities of the state, which will be a g-41(d thinl'.. it oilr farmers11(w" will take to them, aind instead ofit brag ging about selling peavine liay and other food crops, they will raise and feed mnore stock wnd takv care of the ml.anure, they need not he howling any lonkger. about the gIlanlo trust (ir Fairnivis' 'nions should take to this live stock i4ea like younig ducks take' to water: it is the4 natural thiiw4 t(o dii and rightl alongi thet straight road toi tit'he permanntlI' build ing up ofI the1 upl-to-da1lte progr'essivYe A\IIll ou l"armr'iId' Uiontis should be eac'h ini itselft a good live' stock associ altion,l aind tailk mior'e abou)It raisinig moure andic better stock anrd talk less about raisinig muore (cottoni. How About This? Some. of our11 'outhI ( 'arolina lVar mer's' Uions411 have been ,tr'yinmg to make a deal with the Unions in the gralin growing Wecst for their grain, b)ut neither te grain growers nor jhe cotton growers have b)een able to get ears to shipi thei corn. We& are'( t'old that corn hias been otferedi t.hei troim 32 eents t) 'tti 'entIs per bushel, an'd thlousand(s (ob buslst1 have been piled on the ground thiere rotting while cotton fairmers in South Carolina are paying 75 cen'its to 80 cents for' theiri corni when t hey enni get. it. It seemai that thle gi'ainI elevat or men and the RI. R. men01 get. about as much ouit otf the western crop)l as the corn grow~er's get, while South Carolina cotton far miers foot. the bills for the whole push. Now, this is not a matter to be set tied altogether by congress or the courts, for the reason that you cannot legislate common horse sense into cotton farmers' heads, nor drive this hog and hominy doctrine down their throats unless some other fellow grows the hog and hominy. ist Orway .out of thisthn ist * grew your own feed stuffs. It mat S ters not how cheap others can grow it, some how or other, if there is any ~V>thihig like good in this trading busi ness among farmers crops, the men ~~"~ that stand between the cotton growers audpthe grain growers got about all the sugar there is in the hog, while dt the farmier4 at each end are howling oalmnity and ohe*ing the bag. Asud al about thais tune oft the y* bhe southe'n cotton fat'n ai are trying to induce all cotton grow ors to reduce thior a6reage to keep down over produdtion and consequent to the whole so;tlierh cottpn, states, some se,hemish tukopean cotton bears send out their threats through our p4wspapers that i9 we d'n't grow a big stdplus of cotto at raious prices to the. grow0s th4t they will get Af rica to do itr us; The first roand in the papers this time about this Xfric4n, cotti grow ing bluff was sent out by "a Clermian oflicial, and later followed by a French ofileial, who ctAltias to have grown and delivered cotton in Harve, France, at the astonishing low price of : 1-4 cents per pound. Now, we hive all itlong had the opinion that WIIll Street cotton bean were the bi,--est fiars this side of hades, but e oW *ive all tle eake, pie and crust 1ii I,rance. I'liere wits I tine whenl this kiind of talk perhaps hud sone weight in in hhIenteing cotton growers to 1)1111 in more cot ton in order to keel) their trade with these foreign spinners, but the up-to-date cotton planter of to day is well aware of the fact that these English, Oernan, French and Russian spinners have all been send ing down south for our implements, seed and southern mien to grow cotton in Africa at times for about 40 years; but all efforts along this line have proved to be about as practical as it is to inimport ionkeys here from A 'rica to pick ont oue cotton. In fact the two propositions are about on par as to thvir practicability, for it takes two imiie to inind one monkey while he is picking cotton, and it us ually takes two of our southern cot ton growers to mind one of those na tive A frican negroes while lie is grow in_- the cotton and keep him at it. When we coie to reason this thing' OVI in )Iur- minds, we are confident that we have a large number of tame negrCesI'S here about among our pro 4ressiVe cot-ton farimers that would never do a dlay's work if they could keep rIn sti arvilg and freezing with ''nt it.\ There is no necessity for negroes to wor1k in Africa for food and clothing, and it is against their nature to do it here as well as there. We have some white mni here that have the same disease. All this talk about competition with American cotton is rot and out of date here. where we know that the south has the ideal cotton belt of the world, aind week now how to grow cotton and a1re learning how to manufacture cot ton, and still more we have learned to count the cost of productiln of cot ton, andl how to demand a fair profit tlmpii mi prodLcts an4I we are going to have it. Will Oppose Parcels Post. Minneaolis, Min., March 20. hie annual cwontion of the Nation al ietail liardware Dealers' Associa tion opens5 here todlay. The at tenId aince is unusually large and every statet andI terr ior'y is well represent edt. The conmvenstion will last three d ays. It is expeeted that the conven tis n will reniew its ciampaigni against the parcels post )popotsitionl and will adop ijt st ronag resolutions ini oppositionf to i. On the tother hand the conven tin will undoubtedly favor a reduc tioni in the rate on first class mail matter front two cents to one cent for e.achi OUtnce. The dhelegates will argue that the reduction of the rate on first class mail matter will be of greater benefit to the public ini genteral, while the parcels post would involve great cost to the government and would benefit mail order houses to the dis advant age of' the small retailers. No Government Armor Plant. Washington, D. C., March 20.--No actiid will be taken in the Navy De-. palrtnient towardl the preparatiorj of a r'epor't oin the cost of armor plat4 ,ridtion. This in formtions -was t'alledh forth at the last session of congress, but. nothing was said in the INaval Appropriation Bill of the date when this report should be p)resented. Ii wvouldl require several months to make ain exhaustive andh complete study 'of the armor plate situation as it is today,; althouigh probably a bgard of investigatiomi would be aided to some extent by f.he report on 'the sam'e question compiled several years ago. It is evident that nio steps will be taken this year,.at any rate, todard the establishmenit of a govermuient plant for the mariufacture of arrhov, and most oficeers believe that with the policy of economy 'that unow pre vails and is likely to prevail in the increase of the navy it will not be (leomed profitable for the government to embat-k in'the production of a'mor, especillHy at the. currenit prices, which are considered reasonable. Sdme of the officks 'of the navy are in favor of, a goernnout armor plate faotory b4t it is gon5idet'd thattgh stipp of tiiW ditr# by .odttet iu o1'eutly controlled by tb M&ay Do partmont, and that no 01tage would be gained by estab g a governmeit plant. Of course, there must be sooner or later a reSort on the armor plate situation, but this cannot be prepared in.much less than three or four months, -if the ub0et is to be thoroughly discussed. IroU Eport Reords Brokh. Pittsburg, Pa., March 20.--th'e ex ports from the United States of iron and stock manufactures during the month of February broke all pravio'us of wire, nails and iron pipe W6'e ship ped abroad last month through New York and other Eastern seaboard points, the largest consignments ever made to foreign countries in. any one Imloitl ill the history of the trade. TIe siipments of steel rails and hil lets were except ionally heavy, aggre tin g a shade uidelr 50,000 tons. In addition to these' huge shipments, hig lots went overland to the Pacific coast for export to the far East and considerable quantities were also sent from Southern ports. Besides reaching the high water mark, the February exports were in teresting because of the fact that the port of New York handled more than the combined shipments,made through Philadelphia and Baltimore. These ports, especially Baltimore, have pre viously taken care of the bulk of the shipments made to foreign countries from the Atlantic coast. New York shipped nearly 36,000 tons out of the 64,000 or niore tons exported ist month. Another feature of the Feb ruary shipments was the large con signments which went forward to South America, hitherto a stronghold of the German and British iron and steel manufacturers. The steel rail exports represented 26,818 ton's. 14. 1:12 tons went to the Argentine Re public, while 7,446 tns went to Bra zil. To Ja,pa 2,908 tons were ship School Examination. "Class inl general information. stand ip!' The elass consisting of four youths ill vairious conditions of forwardness, and in garments of patched hue. struggled up and prepared for tile (r deal. "Now, then, Jim Smithers-Whati is a politician?'' " A fellow which serves an appren ticeship to lying, selling his -friends, di-inking and neglecting his family, until ho gits out of lhis time, when he gets to be a journeyman ofliep-hunter 1' a1 boss ofilee-holder. ' "Good ! Now, then, next-What is ia popilar preacher?" "A feller which never has a call from the Lord for less than 'flve thousand'. a -year and expenses, in eluding donation parties; also a fel ler which amuses himself by lecturing around the country at fifty dollars a pop. le gives liberally of nothing to he poor, serves the devil ini such a way as he thinks will least offend the Lord, wears first-class broadcloth and prIeallce against pridle, rides to church in a carriage, and condemns the poor people for riding in tile caxs, and when he gets tired of business, le goes into an interesting declin' gits a pension from his grateful cona gregation, and -becomes a religious sp)orter. Or else his feelings git too overp)owerin', and he gits -suspended olhicially-when ef' he gets his deserts he 'd be suspended physically, with a rope-" ''There, that's sufficeient. Next What's the prevailing religion of this country?'' "Git all you can and keep all y'ou get." " Wrong. Next i" ''Gitten' what don 't belong to you, keepin' whiat.you don't need, and eat tin' a sanctified swell generally." "itighit. Next, 'What is a fool?" " Well, lie's a feller who thinks ev ery muan he meets' is honest,. a feller who imagines he can'make inoney by being generous to misers, liberal to colportpur:. and missionary societiesj and honiest towards rogues"' "WellI, and what becomes of thmi "Of who?" "Why, the fools." "Yes, well, them that don't go imigo startin' newspabers and mnagin' op era houses for a livin', generally o6n trive tg pick up a pr'edarious and~ oh sartin livin' as.sholmastrs." / 'Tlass' dismissed; falf holiday." After Hours. Youth's CompaAion. A business woman of'-large experi ence mentioned, not long ago, serious: danger in the-livea of many girls who have to earn jtheir own living, a dat gor especially threatening if the gfl ep conscientious and a hard' workel~ It is athe tindetidy to become a wo4 lng womah-"andl zothing: else. It is u'et$r&hne. She has, perhap~ 1etihoug ad hafd work. .If heo oo 9tpatlon is ift a~ storo or faetory sbo ins .omCOpIAnionship. But if she is in In occupation where she has to work >ractically alone, especially if she is 1way from home, she is in danger of >ecoming dukll, listless, uphappy, be 3aUse, thi-oush oelessness or inertia, ihe lots her life become all work and C 10 play. A young woman can wrong herself a and her employei if that is- t6' case -because her first duty is to be hap- E py, well-rounded woman not a ma thine; her employer, beeus6 it is only E by keeping her freshness of spir i that she can do the 1'st work. So no matter how difficult it seems at first, she must batter down the walls Uf her prison. If she is in a city-and that is where most of the lonely girls .are there are endless' opportunities. There a are working girls' clubs and classes in which she can meet other girls; ti Ulhurch societies that would give her ir warm welcome; free picture exhibits ri and music and lectures. Let her seek till she finds tw,o or thrie other girls P to take in these things with her, and Y life will soon grow full'of interest. ai Let her do one thing more--let her F hold fast to the ideal of home, even di if her home is measured by the narrow walls' of a ball bedroom. Happiness is not a question of the pocketbook, but of the heart. The sim'plest of fare has been known to furnish a Nast rich in nourishnient to the soul. l.ong ago Lovelace wrote: Stone walls (o not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. 4 But it is one of the discoveries that . Nach must make for herself--no other can do it for her. -K1-- 41 NOTICE TO OVERSEERS. 1 All overseers are hereby notified to I warn out the hands in their respective districts and have their roads put in proper shape and condition by the fif teenth day of April, 1906. Herein fail not under the penalty of the law. I J. Monroe Wicker, County Supervisor. 4 Brck! 11 Brick ! P For Sale by C. H. CANNON. "#- REVIVO RESTORES VITALTr I 10 Made a Well Man THE .of Me. hsg.Lot Oi:lty motn-srnw producesthe above r6stits in 8 dowa itacts F 51 fts okf ufadouthf exes on ndseion, power unte one okaldy buoen a orsn al. Roun menerve toie thi lo bahlder, n. lii r. the pre o glow to asl eha ~nd snd OUi itn 17 1stsi having 2BEVIVOno R $eaired Rig ~ hall s ~ ,~~~~k ewe er to Wh moe. B. RIKAR si isanotainie Hra~d and ROA MEIU N CO.A CNITE E.. Rpied iht. w. i' RUKR yourwork prdl.iyand de Give9hi a tria 6 MLA0AA0Ust 0tite AI 17th C Making.eventeen Hur HO11E TENNESSEE F nd While it Lasts to GC lest Patent $5.15 3est half Pat' $4.4A 3est Meal 75c. bU 3est Grits $1.75 S4 Don't pay any more, don't be switc ong, save money and buy from us. Our immene stock of spring goods es and fancy goods and staples, our b g novelties in millinery. Come and - ght thing in prices, style, quality, &< y cannot beat us, we don't make a )ut up on balance, people getting id looking out more for No. i. Corn Drty years experience counts someti )n't you forget it, PROSPER IT Prescription Which we use are without ex, We believe in PURITY. We constantly preach PUR We always practice PURIT 0 ci:es. PURITY counts, and count; I Ask your doctor. MAYES' DRU HR NEWBERRYIt, Newberr, ,apital stock paid in lurplus . )eposits . We do business on bus We extend every con vith safe and sound ban "our per cent. paid on Department. Fir Burglar Prc AS. McINTOSHl, -President. For the Nexi WE OF 50OBa ::OF Straighi AT $4.00 PE S. S. BIr CABBAGE PLANT fitla edersu SacsIset , wihar idred ,Barels of th LOU R Just eceiv > at { Every ,bbl., -O guaranteed, shel. ack. hed off by argument, come right irriving embracing all the novel Irs. Moseley in the North select. ;ee us, we are prepared to do the :., for an all round bill you sini., cut price on one thing and burij educated and opening their eyes e and see us and be convinced. king, we will treat you right and Y, *S. C. M aterials -eption the purest grade* ITY. Y when preparing medi 3 for much, in medicines. S 0 STORE. i.'AVIG BANK. 9, S. C. $ .50,000.00 . . 25,000.00 . . 235,000.00 iness- principles. sideration consistent king. deposits in.Savings e Proof.Vault. of Safe. J. E. NORWOOD,. Cashier. laLI Ten Days FER rrels I Flour R BARREL. ge Co. S FOR SALE. Cabbage lanta for '1ho trade #d new AId,*Ca* *ioso ege